De summo pontifice Christi in terris vicario, eiusque officio & potestate . . . Louvain, John Fowler, 1569. [Bound with:] URANIUS (Henricus). De re numaria, mensuris, et ponderibus. Cologne, ad intersignium Monocerotis, 1569
POLE, (Reginald)
Printer's device on title-page of first work.
2 works in one vol. 8vo. [8], 151, [5] ff.; [32]ff. (final leaf blank). Contemporary limp vellum stained orange (lacks ties). 1569
I. First edition of Cardinal Pole's influential work on the Papacy edited posthumously by Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), who also provides a dedicatory letter addressed to Pope Pius V. Pole's treatise on the powers and duties of the papal office was conceived soon after the death of his friend Pope Paul III at a time when Pole himself was considered the most likely candidate for the pontificate. However, to appease the French party a compromise candidate was found in Cardinal de Monte who was elected Pope on 8 February 1550 and took the name of Julius III. The editor, Joliffe, had been Dean of Bristol but escaped England following the accession of Elizabeth I and settled in Louvain.
II. Second edition. "Henricus Uranius was a German classicist, born at Reesz, Prussia. He lived at Emmerlich (Emrich) when he wrote this work. This is a semi-historical discussion of the various measures which the 16th century received from the Roman civilization, or which were mentioned in the most commonly read classics of the Renaissance period. No arithmetical operations are given in the book. It begins with the fractional parts of the as , the twelfth being called the uncia (the Troy ounce), the sixth the sextans, the fourth the quadrans, and so on" (Smith). Smith erroneously states that there was no edition other than the first of 1540.
First title stained partially obscuring two early inscriptions.
I. Allison & Rogers I, no. 915. Adams P1746. II. Dekesel U2. Smith Arithmetica p. 208/9 (1540 ed.). Not in Adams.
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